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Can I cut heat shrink tubing?

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Heat shrink is manufactured to the shrunk size, stretched and then sold. (Wikipedia explains the manufacturing process in a bit more detail). Cutting it cross-ways is fine. But, when you cut tubing length-ways it loses integrity which is why we don't recommend it.

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